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Zusatztext If your aim is to understand why he appealed and appeals to many diverse readers in many European languages, then you will find the book immensely illuminating...collectively [these essays] reveal much about the complex process in which a grand reputation is established. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Bann is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK. Klappentext Leading international scholars, critics and translators explore Pater's reception and afterlives throughout Europe. Includes a historical timeline and comprehensive bibliography. Vorwort Leading international scholars, critics and translators explore Pater's reception and afterlives throughout Europe. Includes a historical timeline and comprehensive bibliography. Zusammenfassung Just over a century after his death, Walter Pater's critical reputation now stands as high as it has ever been. In the English-speaking world, this has involved recovery from the widespread neglect and indifference which attended his work in the first half of the twentieth century. In Europe, however, enthusiastic disciples such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the German-speaking world and Charles Du Bos in France, helped to fuel a growing awareness of his writings as central to the emergence of modernist literature. Translations of works like Imaginary Portraits, established his distinctive voice as an aesthetic critic and his novel, Marius the Epicurean, was enthusiastically received in Paris in the 1920s and published in Turin on the eve of the Second World War. This collection traces the fortunes of Pater's writings in these three major literatures and their reception in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Preface Elinor ShafferAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsTimeline: European Reception of Pater by Stefano Evangelista, University of BristolIntroduction by Stephen Bann, University of Bristol I Italian 1. 'The Sterile Ascetic of Beauty': Pater and the Italian fin de siècle by Benedetta Bini, University of Tuscia2. The Fortune of The Renaissance in Italian art criticism (1894-1944) by Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna3. Pater's Reception in Italy by Elisa Bizzotto, University of Venice-Ca'Foscari II French 4. 'Influence occulte': The Reception of Pater's works in France before 1922 by Emily Eells, University of Paris X-Nanterre5. 'An untimely soul'? Pater's academic reception in France from the early 1920s by Benédicte Coste, Stendhal University, Grenoble III German 6. A German View of Pater by Wolfgang Iser7. 'Time flowing and time suspended': Hoffmansthal's variations on a Paterian theme by Ulrike Stamm, Berlin8. The critic's critic: Rudolf Borchardt's Centenary essay 'Walter Pater' (1939) by Martina Lauster, University of Exeter IV Hungarian 9. Pater in Hungary by Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Eötvös University, Budapest V Czech10. Pater in Czech culture: Milos Marten's Essay on Marius the Epicurean (1911) by Martin Prochàzka, Charles University, PragueVI Polish11. 'Our "I" and History': The Polish Reception of Pater by Piotr Juszkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan VII Portugese 12. Fernando Pessoa and the reception of Pater in Portugal by Maria Teresa Malafaia, University of Lisbon and Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, University of Oporto VIII Catalan and Spanish 13. War and Peace - Pater's part: Translations in 1930s and 1940s Spain by Jacqueline Hurtley, University of BarcelonaBibliographyIndex...
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Stephen Bann is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK.
